Prickwillow
Prickwillow is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, with an estimated population of 440. Originally a small hamlet on the banks of the River Great Ouse, it is now on the banks of the River Lark since re-organisation of the river system.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 354 residents
- Description: village in East Cambridgeshire, England
- Also known as: “Prickwillow, Cambridgeshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Prickwillow Museum.
Prickwillow Museum
Museum
Photo: Hugh Venables, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Prickwillow Museum, formerly known as the Prickwillow Drainage Engine Museum, tells the story of the changing face of the Fens and its network of drainage systems and pumping stations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Queen Adelaide and Chettisham.
Queen Adelaide
Village
Photo: Fractal Angel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Queen Adelaide is a hamlet on the River Great Ouse in the Fens about 1+1⁄2 miles northeast of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. The hamlet is named after a pub, which in turn was named after the British queen Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. Queen Adelaide is situated 2 miles west of Prickwillow.
Chettisham
Village
Photo: Colin Attenborough, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chettisham is a hamlet in East Cambridgeshire between Ely and Littleport. The main claim to fame is St. Michael church. There are some pictures and a description of the church at the Cambridgeshire Churches website. Chettisham is situated 3 miles west of Prickwillow.
Burnt Fen
Locality
Photo: Alison Rawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Burnt Fen is an area of low-lying land crossed by the A1101 road between Littleport in Cambridgeshire and Mildenhall in Suffolk, England. It is surrounded on three sides by rivers, and consists of prime agricultural land, with sparse settlement. Burnt Fen is situated 3 miles north of Prickwillow.
Prickwillow
- Category: locality
- Location: Isle of Ely, East Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.41554° or 52° 24′ 56″ northLongitude
0.34554° or 0° 20′ 44″ eastPopulation
354Elevation
7 feet (2 metres)Open location code
9F42C88W+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 29869463OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2639895Wikidata ID
Q2214227
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Prickwillow” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بريكويلو”
- Cebuano: “Prickwillow”
- Dutch: “Prickwillow”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بريكويلو”
- French: “Prickwillow”
- Irish: “Prickwillow”
- Persian: “پریکویلو”
- Polish: “Prickwillow”
- Swedish: “Prickwillow”
- Welsh: “Prickwillow”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Prickwillow”. Photo: sidibousaid, CC BY 2.0.